Upgrading to BlogEngine.Net 1.4

This weekend I spent sometime upgrading my site to 1.4 version of BlogEngine.Net from 1.3. Following this post from Al Nyveldt, I upgraded the site first on my laptop and tested for proper working then uploaded to the server. But it was not all hunky dory. Major changes have been made which needed to be adapted to, for example, the new themes support the widget model and all my customizations to previous theme had to be redone to take advantage of the new model. It is not to say that the previous theme was not working, it was, but it was static ofcourse as opposed to the new version. Also one control that I had added to it could not put into the new version because its simply a web control and not made to fit the widget model. I might have to do and upgrade on that as well during the week. Another thing that is giving me unnecessary trouble is that editor for the profile widget. It for some reason always points to the /admin folder and does not allow me to refer images from other folders. To bypass that I had to use the relative path ".." trick to move one level up and point the image to some other location.

One thing that has disappointed me is that there is still the lack of good reporting in the engine. I have used Wordpress before and coming from there I consider this a major shortcoming. There is no reporting on the post visits and because of that no controls for popular posts or regular commenter etc. I hope these features are coming soon. But then, this is also an opportunity for those who need it to build these controls for the community.